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Bauhaus Manifesto and Program
Walter Gropius
Calls for uniting all the arts under the primacy of building, and for architects, painters and sculptors to return to craft training in workshops rather than academic drawing rooms.
Architecture & Built Environment · Modern & Contemporary Architecture
A topic within Modern & Contemporary Architecture, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Walter Gropius
Calls for uniting all the arts under the primacy of building, and for architects, painters and sculptors to return to craft training in workshops rather than academic drawing rooms.
Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius & Ise Gropius
The Bauhaus catalogue argues, through the school's own graduates' account of its first decade, that unifying craft workshops with fine art training under one roof was the school's real innovation, not any single style it produced.
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